2010 in review

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:10:03 -0800

Another year down the drain. A good year, in the end.

2010 Geek Achievements

Wrote some code...
- cow-blog - The engine running this blog.
- oyako - Clojure ORM library.
- gaka - CSS compiler for Clojure
Finished a huge project for work, my first AJAX-y web app (in Rails). That was fun, albeit stressful.
Learned a lot of git.
Learned a lot of Clojure.
Learned a lot of Emacs.
Learned a lot of Javascript.
Learned a lot of PostgreSQL. It's good to be free of MySQL.
Switched to ZSH. This was a good switch.
Tried to learn a lot of Japanese, but kind of fizzled out at the end of the year.
Alllllllmost got a Clojure gold badge on Stack Overflow. I'll get it soon though. Not losing any sleep over it either way.
Read a lot of books. The best: probably Feynman's books of anecdotes.
Blogged a bit. Got an article in Hacker Monthly. Was flamed repeatedly. Learned a lot in the process.

2010 Non-Geek Achievements

Immigrated to Canada. A good move, without a doubt.
Lost 25ish lbs. :)
Learned how to cook better.
My most important achievement from 2010 is actually non-geek: I finally obtained a bit of an offline social life. This is not an easy task for one such as myself.
Continued to learn to appreciate good beer. Longwood Dunkelweizen, mmm.

2010 Failures

Did not blog enough.¹
Did not write enough code.¹
Missed the first Clojure Conj. Maybe next year.
Re-gained 10ish lbs. :( ²

Plans for 2011

Re-lose 25ish pounds. I'd like to reach the weight I had in college.
Finish my rewrite of oyako. I have ambitious plans for it, if I can just find the time.
Finish my rewrite of cow-blog to match oyako.
Keep working on the RPG my wife and I are creating (in Clojure).
Attend the next Clojure Conj, I hope.
Learn more Clojure.
Learn Haskell? Trying and failing to learn Haskell has become somewhat of a tradition, no sense stopping now.
Learn all 2000+ jouyou kanji by the end of the year.
Supar sekrit projekt. But I haven't signed the contract for it yet so I won't talk about it until I do.
Maintain social life at acceptable levels.
Buy a house.

I feel like I have solid plans for completing each of these things. Blogging more often and finishing oyako are high on my list of priorities. I expect 2011 to be my most productive year to date.

See also, non-geek achievement #4, "Obtained social life". ↩
See also non-geek achievement #3, "Learned how to cook better". ↩

briancarper.net (λ) (Tag: 2010)

2010 in review

2010 Geek Achievements

2010 Non-Geek Achievements

2010 Failures

Plans for 2011